There’s an old saying about insanity being the repetition of something while expecting different results, so it’s no wonder people are fed up with the sorry results they see from their various governments.
It’s not just the federal government mind you, though to be sure our corrupt liberal bureaucracy in Washington has done little to endear itself to most Americans of late. But there are state, and even city governments like New York City in many cases, that have horribly let their citizens down. After years of failure from the governing class, we are starting to see pushback as the governed and the states take matters into their own hands to bring an end to the same old insane liberal results they’ve been getting from elected officials.
On the subject of federal failure, this past week Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas would be building its own border wall after Joe Biden’s administration has, to put it mildly, dropped the ball on the ongoing border crisis. It’s a sensible solution to a problem that’s been decades in the making, to have border states secure themselves and thereby benefit the whole country. It’s the least border governors can do for their citizens, since our current president doesn’t even think the crisis on the border is real. This is federalism in action, hearkening back to the Founding Fathers.
Moving down to the state level, I came across news the other day that five counties in Oregon want to join the neighboring state of Idaho, and no wonder.
Oregon’s state legislature has skewed leftward for decades thanks to its liberal big cities. While there’s much wrong with being liberal, the rush to turn Oregon into a Leftist wonderland has completely ignored the concerns of rural, more conservative residents, which is a common problem in many states. If the folks in these counties don’t feel like the legislature speaks for them, why should they stay in a state that doesn’t reflect their values? Plus, who wants to be in the same state as Portland right now?
Finally on the city level, there is a movement brewing down in the South’s Peachtree State.
The district of Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia - a neighborhood renowned for its commercial and business centers - has been dealing with the increase in crime that has come in the wake of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement rampaging across America’s urban communities last year. After a year of rising violence that the Atlanta city government failed to contain, residents and business leaders in Buckhead, shockingly, want out. Legislation has been filed to make Buckhead its own municipality, complete with its own police force to curb the violent crime.
Notice the trend? American citizens are getting tired of their government on every level failing them, and consequently are choosing self-actualization and liberty over continued failure. And Staten Island wants to separate from the rest of New York.
People are also voting with their feet, leaving the cesspools of California and New York and other liberal gutters and moving to the common sense states of Texas and Florida.
I’m certainly not an anarchist (anarchy is worse than an inept government), but I do believe American government stopped working for the people a long time ago. Federally elected leaders have long been concerned only with reelection, and likewise state and city-level leaders have become increasingly entrenched in bloated political machines while their constituents get left behind.
On every level - be it the border crisis, a skewed state government, or inept city leaders - constituents who are exhausted by failing leadership are becoming leaders themselves. They are offering practical, nonviolent and democratic solutions to their problems as Americans should, and honestly it’s quite gratifying and gives me hope.
These are Americans fighting to control their own destiny, to create or become part of a representative government that works for them, not just one side.
Greg Abbott might be a Republican, but there are plenty of sensible Democrats outside Washington who see the border crisis for what it is and want something done. Likewise, plenty of the folks in Buckhead are probably registered Democrats who see that violent crime hurts everyone regardless of party affiliation. In short, people want real and effective change, not just the lies of Joe Biden being somehow mainstream instead of the ultra-leftist he really is.
These examples are just the first of what I hope will be a new large-scale trend in the United States, that being people improving their lot with sensible decisions. We need real common sense solutions, not the senile nuttiness of Biden.
No, what we need are ordinary Americans making America a better place. That’s the future, if we have the courage to make the leap.